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Early Thraex helmet ? - Conal - 01-04-2006
http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgur ... D%26sa%3DN
Re: Early Thraex helmet ? - Martin Moser - 01-04-2006
Quite certainly not, as AFAIK the gladiatorial type of Thraex only comes into existence a couple hundred years later with the establishment of gladiatorial games as a form of "politically grounded entertainment"
cheers,
Martin
Re: Early Thraex helmet ? - Conal - 01-04-2006
What about the possibility that it could illustrate a tradition of the Griffins head which goes back to the early contests ?
Dated to 350 - 300 BC and the first recorded contest was 264 (?) BC which is one, or two, generations away.
It looks to me like an add on at a later date but if its a genuine add on and it was not uncommon for warriors then it might have been adopted by the Thraex at a later date.
hey .. I'm fishing here.